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May 11, 2022

Kam Lau wins Caltech Distinguished Alumni Award

EECS Prof. Emeritus Kam Lau, has won the 2022 California Institute of Technology Distinguished Alumni Award, the highest honor presented by Caltech to its alumni.  He was cited “for extraordinary contributions to society as an engineer, entrepreneur, and artist.” Lau is known for his pioneering developments and commercialization of RF…

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May 5, 2022

Finsen Chiu wins BSA Excellence in Management Award

Finsen Chiu, the EECS Instructional Support Group Manager, has won a Berkeley Staff Assembly (BSA) 2022 Excellence in Management (EIM) Award.  This award “honors exemplary non-academic managers and supervisors who have led their teams and team members to meaningful accomplishments this past year.”  The 2022 theme, building and maintaining community,…

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May 4, 2022

Putri Karunia’s Typedream allows users to build no-code websites

EECS alumna Putri Karunia (B.S. ’19) who co-founded 2022 Forbes 30-Under-30 Enterprise Tech company “Typedream,” is the subject of a profile titled “Putri Karunia proves that women not only belong in tech startups, but will actually make them more successful and profitable.” Karunia, who was raised in Indonesia, graduated cum…

Rediet Abebe, EEAMO 2021

April 26, 2022

Rediet Abebe named 2022 Carnegie Fellow

CS Assistant Prof. Rediet Abebe has been named to the 2022 class of Andrew Carnegie Fellows.  This fellowship recognizes “scholars and writers in the humanities and social sciences” who are addressing “important and enduring issues confronting our society.”  Abebe’s research is in algorithms and artificial intelligence, with a focus on…

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April 19, 2022

Chase Norman selected to participate in the Heidelberg Laureate Forum

CS undergraduate student Chase Norman is among 200 young mathematics and computer science researchers selected from across the globe to attend the 9th Heidelberg Laureate Forum (HLF) in Germany this September. During the week-long conference, participants will share ideas with some of the “most exceptional mathematicians and computer scientists of…

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April 13, 2022

Dave Epstein wins 2022 Paul & Daisy Soros Fellowship

CS graduate student Dave Epstein (advisor: Alexei Efros) has won a 2022 Paul & Daisy Soros Graduate Fellowship for New Americans.  This fellowship recognizes outstanding graduate students who are immigrants and children of immigrants in the United States, and “who are poised to make significant contributions to US society, culture…

Bin Yu

April 12, 2022

Bin Yu chosen as speaker for 2023 Wald Lectures

EECS Prof. Bin Yu (Statistics M.A. ’87/Ph.D. ’90) has been chosen by the Institute of Mathematical Statistics (IMS) to present the 2023 Wald Memorial Lectures.  Considered the highest honor bestowed by the IMS, a single Wald Lecturer is selected annually to deliver a series of one, two, three or four one-hour…

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April 7, 2022

Audrey Sillers wins 2022 BSA Excellence in Management Award

Audrey Sillers, the EECS Director of Student Diversity, has won a Berkeley Staff Assembly (BSA) 2022 Excellence in Management (EIM) Award.  This award “honors exemplary non-academic managers and supervisors who have led their teams and team members to meaningful accomplishments this past year.”  The 2022 theme, building and maintaining community,…